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Placing the staff in the beggar's hands, he said, 6 Sit there, and scare off the dogs and swine, and do not let such a one as you lord it over strangers. A worse thing might have befallen you. Then back he went to the hall, with his beggar's bag on his shoulder and his clothes more ragged than ever.
There are the same wants, the same sorrows, the same necessity for the same cleansing beneath the queen's robes and the peer's ermine, the workman's jacket and the beggar's rags. Whatever differences of culture, of station, of idiosyncrasy there may be, these are but surface and accidental.
That accursed stinging smoke! Wait, you dogs! As soon as the pathway widens, we'll run you down with scant ceremony, and may the gods deprive me of a day of life for each one I spare! Another torch out! One can't see one's hand before one's face! At a time like this a beggar's crutch would be better than a leader's staff"
Dorcas, in the Beggar's Opera, says, 'One cannot eat one's cake and have it too!" She relates, in the same letter, a curious anecdote of the old and celebrated tube. Before the optical apparatus was finished, many visitors took a pleasure in walking through it, among the rest, on one occasion, King George III. and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Well, to-morrow I shall bring you some of the songs you'll have to sing in my 'Beggar's Opera' that is if we can talk that curmudgeon Rich into the ideas that I and my friends have in our minds. Are you lodging in Hampstead?" "Oh, yes. I'm staying with Hannah's cousin. You remember Hannah, don't you, Mr. Gay?
In the well-known ballad preserved by Bishop Percy, of "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green," it is imagined that Henry de Montfort was rescued at night from the field of battle while still living, by "a baron's faire daughter," in search of her father's body; that she nursed him, and that, on his recovery they married, their daughter being "prettye Bessee."
Gay gave Voltaire "The Beggar's Opera," in private, and together they called on Congreve, who interrupted the Frenchman's flow of flattery long enough to say that he wished to be looked on as a gentleman, not a poet. And Voltaire replied that there were many gentlemen but few poets, and if Congreve had had the misfortune to be simply a gentleman he would not have troubled to call on him at all.
They were stun'sles. That shows the beggar's no sailor. That trick was really the one thing we did. Pho! I thought he was a sailorman, an' 'e hasn't sense enough to see what extemporisin' eleven good an' drawin' sails out o' four trys'les an' a few awnin's means. 'E must have been drunk!" "Never mind, Mr. Pyecroft. I want to hear about your target-practice, and the execution." "Oh!
'tis a mere bedesman; and bending forward to pour a handful of silver into the beggar's cap, he said, 'Pray, Gaffer, pray pray for the dead and living, both. 'So, said James, as both mounted, 'there's a fee for a boding traitor. 'I knew his face, said Bedford, with a shudder; 'he belonged to Archbishop Scrope. 'A traitor, too, said James. 'Nay, there was too much cause for his words.
Leslie, perhaps, might have loathed it had she been put down in the midst of it; to Aunt Annie it would always seem entirely beneath even contempt. But Norma realized to-night, as she slipped into church for a few minutes, as she dropped a coin into a beggar's tin cup, as she entered into casual conversation with the angry mother of a defiant boy, that this, to her, was life.
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